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Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Wainwright Tomb is a mausoleum located in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.Originally constructed for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright in 1892, the tomb also contains the remains of her husband, Ellis Wainwright.
He married Olga Mendez Monsanto with whom he had two children, including Edgar Monsanto Queeny.Queeny died in 1968 in St. Louis and was buried at the Bellefontaine Cemetery. [5]
The death of his wife in 1881 was very hard on him, and his final years were marked by poverty and ill health. By 1898 he was an invalid, and he died on November 19. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
Francis Quadrangle Marker at the University of Missouri Monument marking Francis's grave in Bellefontaine Cemetery. In 1895, the University of Missouri dedicated David R. Francis Quadrangle in honor of the former governor who is credited with keeping the university in Columbia after the fire of Academic Hall in 1892.
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri He died of poisoning after a druggist accidentally made medicine for him from the root of a plant, rather than the leaf. [ 12 ] He died on May 20, 1863, and was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery [ 25 ] [ 26 ] next to John Berry Meachum.
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River.